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· From: JEROD23
· Subject: F5-E reviews of Miscellaneous zines
This file is ShareRight 1992 by Jerod Pore (email jerod23@well.sf.ca.us),
you may reproduce it however and as often as you like as long as this
sentence is included.
Send your zines to FactSheet Five 1800 Market St. San Francisco CA 94102
These are zines that fall into a variety of categories, but I'm reviewing
them now for the benefit of those who have subscribed to the update flavor
of FactSheet Five - Electric. For laughs, I've attempted to alphabetize
the zines by title. I'm totally arbitrary about words like "the."
Subscribers to both flavors of F5-E will see these reviews scattered
amongst other files.
Most of the zines listed here are good to excellent, while a few suck big
time. I'm real happy to have avoided utter banality this time around.
%Title: 2600 Volume 9 Number 3
%Descr: 2600 is the essential zine for the explorers, exploiters and
defenders of CyberSpace. This issue features: devasting security holes in
AmiExpress BBS software; how to defeat callback verification; using 800
numbers to place free calls at COCOTs; a simple C virus; two articles
with basic info about cracking (as in, get *this* issue if you *really*
want to start cracking systems); a collection of burreaucratic memos,
including one from Shanghai; and the always interesting letters.
%Info: $21.00 a year to 2600 PO Box 752 Middle Island NY 11953-0752
48 pages, digest. email 2600@well.sf.ca.us
%Title: Black Sheep Issues 1-4
%Descr: Short, depressing and utterly predictible stories and 'horror'
comix. Numbers 3 and 4 are the most incomprehensibly laid out zines I've
seen. Badly photocopied, too.
%Info: $2.00 each to Craig Cardiff 363 Lee Circle Waterloo ON N2K 2L8
20-36 pages, digest.
%Title: Bowling Fun with Homer and the Uncontrollable Urge to Drop a Penny
off of a Very Tall Building Just to See If It Will Go Straight Through a
Man's Skull, Vaporize His Brains and Kill Him Before He Has a Chance to
Soil Himself Volume 1 Number 3
%Descr: Except for the title and the "Particle Man" minicomic, this is the
quintessential generic zine, complete with handwritten editorial about
being late, naughty collages and reviews of 10 year old punkrock records.
%Info: $1.00 each to John Beasley PO Box 2487 Chesapeake VA 23327-2487
20 pages, half-legal.
%Title: California Libertarian News Volume 7 Number 8
%Descr: State election results, including such momentous victories as a
city council seat in Orange County and a recreation district board in
Sacramento. Jerry Pico (June Genis' campaign manager) does a post-mortem.
Another frightening report from Jarret Wollstein on the Police State that
is America.
%Info: $25.00 a year to Libertarian Party of California 655 Lewelling
Blvd. #362 San Leandro CA 94579 10 pages, standard.
%Title: California NORML Reports Volume 16 Number 3
%Descr: Latest good news/bad news (such as Medical Marijuana inititives
vs. more fascistic forfeiture "laws") on the legal front. Info about the
convention in San Luis Obisbo. An election guide and a great synopsis of
still more studies that show marijuana is nowhere near as bad as the
government makes it out to be. My favorite factoid: "Studies of drug-
related auto fatalities sho that both marijuana and alcohol cause
accidents, but that alcohol tends to be the dominant risk factor, probably
because it tends to make drivers go faster, whereas marijuana tends to make
them slow down."
%Info: SASE for sample, $25.00 for a two year membership to California
NORML 2215-R Market St. #278 San Francisco CA 94114 8 pages, standard.
%Title: Coltsfoot Volume XIII Number 5
%Descr: A zine about wild plants and what they're good for, be it food,
medicene, spirituality or beauty. This issue includes data on the American
Lotus (nelumbo lutea), Acorus calamus, vervain (verbana hastata lucidus)
and boneset (eupatorium perfoliatum). Reviews of _Golden Guide to
Hallucinogenic Plants_ and _With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It_.
%Info: $10.00 a year to James Troy Route 1 Box 313A Shipman VA 22971
24 pages, digest.
%Title: Counterclockwise Number 1
%Descr: "Jesus saves, but Buddha keeps foods fresher longer." Exerpts
from, and commentary on all the racist passages of Laura Wilder's _Little
House on the Prairie_. A truly scary encounter with what reads like a
nascent teen-fucking vice principal. Hilarious account of sex orgies
during "The Brady Bunch" with Dan Quayle. Hot fashions for fake liberals.
Excellent from-the-trenches reporting on ineffective AIDS and drugs
awareness propaganda in high schools, presented by Oprah Winfrey's high-
school sweetheart. I was most impressed by this zine. I'm doubly
impressed by the fact it's produced by "an unruly group of uppity teenagers
from the middle of the country." Get it!
%Info: $1.00 each to Matthew Foster 812 North LaBarge Pierre SD 57501-
4730 24 pages, digest.
%Title: Crash Collusion Number 2
%Descr: Well documented information on two interrelated subjects, UFOs and
psychedelic plants. Once you read this zine, you'll get the connections.
We're presented with The occult nature of UFOs, from Crowley to the most
ridiculous New Agers. Are the space brothers good, evil or too alien to
classify? Then we get some tasty info on obscure and semi-obscure
ethnobotanicals, with sources for cacti seeds and cuttings. Yum! Plus
great art, hanging out at Reich's tomb and reviews.
%Info: $2.50 each to Wesley Nations PO Box 49233 Austin TX 78765 20
pages, standard.
%Title: F November 4, 1992
%Descr: Mostly reprints from other zines and mainstream news sources.
Like _Blue Ryder_ but with a better selection of clips. More stupidity
from the frontlines of the War on Some Drugs. All of one congresscritter,
Joe Kennedy, coming out in favor of legalization. Corporate polluters
disguising their PACs with environmentally concerned names like "The
National Wetlands Coalition." Contacts and two pages of zine listings. If
you have the time or inclination for but one anarcho/lefty zine, _F_ is an
excellent summary of the outlook.
%Info: $1.50 each to Large Larry 1800 Market St. #249
San Francisco CA 94102 10 pages, standard.
%Title: Feeding The Fowls September 1992 and October 1992
%Descr: Optimistic little pieces about feminism, school and life in a co-
op.
%Info: $0.10 and a stamp for two to Erin 1181 Q Street House F Arcata
CA 95521 8 pages, mini.
%Title: fps Number 2
%Descr: News and views on animation, from Disney to the latest cyberpunk
anime. Disney's reluctance to admit to using Pixar's CAPS. The absolutely
bogus "Nemo" releases, "King Morpheus and Progessor Genius look like they
were put together by union men stuck in a Filmation time warp." Film
collecting for video heads. "Bubble Gum Crisis" and "Bubble Gum Crash"
plots.
%Info: $3.00 each to Emru Townsend PO Box 36 Station H Montreal Quebec
H3G 2K5 28 pages, standard
%Title: Frighten the Horses Number 10
%Descr: A defense of NAMBLA, a touchy but necessary thing to think about.
English dykes do America. On being queer in the Peace Corps, neither as
good or as bad as you might think it is. Dykes fantasize about having
dicks. More bad news for freedom of expression rights. Incredibly
"incorrect" fiction that one just can't stop reading, even after one's
stomach threatens out-and-out revolt...
%Info: $6.00 & an age statement each to Heat Seeking Publishing 41
Sutter Street #1108 San Francisco CA 94104 64 pages, standard
%Title: The Frostbite Falls Far-Flung Flier Volume 7 Number 1
%Descr: This issue is devoted to one of my favorite kidtoons, "George of
the Jungle." There's a guide to all 17 broadcast episodes and the unaired
pilot. A trivia quiz. Part four of a guide to the numerous puns in Jay
Ward shows. Sightings of Jay Ward characters. Plus part two of an
interview with Bill Hurtz (a director for Jay Ward).
%Info: $10.00 for four to Frostbite Falls Far-Flung Flier PO Box 39
Macedonia OH 44056-0039 18 pages, standard
%Title: Glen Burnieland Number 22
%Descr: Another fine & funny issue of my favorite personalzine (and one of
the very few that stands up to repeated reading). Baseball, photographing
kids for the cover of a trade zine, the U.S. government *finally* granting
citizenship to Filipinos who served in World War II, home repairs and
haircuts, swimming lessons, bogus speedometers and dating all related in
the Patent-Pending Mr. Chuck style o'writing. Caution! This zine causes
loud outbursts of laughter and rolling on the floor.
%Info: Free! from Chuck Jones 9195-H Hitching Post Lane Laurel MD
20723 16 pages, standard
%Title: Half the Fat
%Descr: Yet another stupid college art project. I guess if I understood
what football was all about I would get the story. Commercial imagery as
irony (yawn). Poetry (yawn). Another story from someone who watched Star
Trek too many times.
%Info: Free (I bet) from Paul Georgeades PO Box 2000 SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton NY 13902-6000 8 pages, tabloid.
%Title: Half-Truth Number 11
%Descr: Half-Truth has got to be the sickest&funniest punk type zine in
the world. The fake ads put most 'humour' rags to shame. "Vulvamint(R) is
two, yes, two feminine hygiene sprays in one. It combines the long lasting
protection of an industrial vaginal spray with that refreshing taste of
mint. Vulva safe. Vulva clean. Vulva fresh! VULVAMINT(R)!" Fiction,
non-fiction and poetry that ranges from the OK to the awesome. All that and
comix from Ace Backwords and Blair Wilson and others, an interview with
Andry Partridge, poetry from Charles fucking Bukowski (a regular
contributor), reviews of great and awful trash cinema and trashiest
records. An essential zine.
%Info: $1.00 (deal of the decade!) each to Jeff Hughart PO Box 931013
Los Angeles CA 90093 32 pages, standard.
%Title: The Hardcore Number 5
%Descr: The Hardcore should appeal to bOING-bOING fans. It's loaded with
cyberpunky comix and slipstream fiction. In "A Kalifornian Khaos
Kinetropic Kollage" a Brit goes to the left coast and finds that Blade
Runner was a docudrama. Reviews of eurocyberculture products and the
strange places at which they retail.
%Info: L1.50 to Jael Nuit PO Box 1893 London N9 8JT 36 pages, A4.
%Title: HOMOture Number 5
%Descr: HOMOture has the most strinkingly beautiful pictures of nekkid men
I've seen, most well composed and executed. Photos that illustrate slice
of life'n'death (sex and dying, sex and dying - the epitath of a blank
generation?) stories with something more, much more than big dicks, tight
buns and intense body modifications. Granted, the intense tattoos and
piercings are interesting studies themselves. Plus gossip and Homo Patrol
comics.
%Info: $4.00 to HOMOture PO Box 191781 San Francisco, CA 94119-1781 36
pages, standard.
%Title: The Imaginary Rave
%Descr: A long, X inspired rant about raves and dancing and X and LSD as
the catalysts in the next step of human evolution "while also opening the
post-terrestrial circuits of their psyches."
%Info: $2.00 cash to Tribal Donut 41 Sutter Street Box 1348 San
Francisco CA 94104 20 pages somewhere between mini and digest.
%Title: IndustrialNation Number 6
%Descr: Great source for all your industrial or gothic news. Hey! an
interview with one of my favorite bands, the Vampire Rodents. Interviews
with Chris Connelly, Chem Lab, Tool & Die and Paul Lemos. Tons of reviews.
Insipid articles on putting out a record and how big money music is co-
opting industrial culture. Like you were expecting otherwise? While most
of this zine comes across well, the "how-to" articles carry this tone of
"We go to college, we *know* how to do this, read us and learn the truth
you pitiful scum." To be trite and compare, IN could easily become the MRR
of industrial culture, it has all the proper elements. Great record
reviews. Unfortunately, some data is lost due to illegible combinations of
typefaces and backgrounds. Worthwhile overall for the 'industrial'
content, but the goth side of things often reads like a suckupathon.
%Info: $2.50 to IndustrialNation 114 1/2 E. College St #16 Iowa City IA
52240 112 pages, digest.
%Title: The INFO Journal Number 67
%Descr: The INFO Journal is the longest-running Fortean publication.
What's "Fortean" you might ask? It's something strange and anomolous, and
preferably docuement. Named after Charles Hoy Fort, who chronicled over
10,000 cases of really weird events. This issue covers a ley (an alignment
of churches and other holy sites, thought to be over some line of electro-
magnetic force) in Worms, Germany; accounts of strange meteorlogical
phenomenae in the nineteenth century; UFOs; the odd statues left by a
civilization that flourished in what is now Georgia, USA; ball lightning;
pennies falling instead of hail during a thunderstorm; killer bees and many
more odd and wonderful happenings in a world stranger than most people
would believe. Plus reviews of books and other publications of interest.
%Info: $4.00 to The International Fortean Organization PO Box 367
Arlington VA 22210-0367 44 pages, standard.
%Title: Ladies' Fetish & Taboo Society Volume V. Number 2
%Descr: Imagine if all the weirdos or witnesses of the weirdness as
reported in _View From the Ledge_ and _News of the Weird_ were just a few
people who wrote a zine in a _Glen Burnieland_ style? Are you still with
me? LF&TS is all that and more. Like going on a date with some asshole
guy who wrote you a fan letter. Intermittent light pole action as an omen
for something. Robots in Brooklyn. Camping coincedences. Amusing events
from a universe too close to home.
%Info: $2.00 to Kathy Biehl PO Box 542327 Houston TX 77254-2327 14
pages, standard.
%Title: Leave Us Alone!!
%Descr: No, it's not an ANSWER Me! spin-off, this is the latest from Tony
Alamo, a weird cut-up of Jack Chick's rabid anti-Catholicism with
Libertarain and Fully Informed Jury Amemndment data. "Your FIRST VOTE is
at the POLLS, your SECOND VOTE is at the GRAND JURY, and your most powerful
CHECK is the JURY VOTE. Remember, it is a government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE
PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE!
"Our forefathers soon realized the Miracle of Self-Government. They found
that keeping the POWER in the HANDS of the PEOPLE via the JURY vote,
combined with the simple JUSTICE of Common Law, did not produce anarchy,
but genuine GOD-GIVE FREEDOM!
"The Vatican news media lies by saying that my church and I are now
defunct. We are not defunct. We are operating and are winning court cases
by paryer, the Word of God, and the U.S. Constitution."
For those of you who don't know about just how weird the Rev. Alamo is,
think about this: he had his first wife's head cryogenically frozen
because he just *knows* that they'll both be needed just before
Armageddeon. He later married a woman who looks just like his first wife
and did a pamphlet about how the three of them will be married in heaven.
"Why the Alamo's CAN'T receive psychiatric treatment" is also recommended.
%Info: Free for a letter full of "God, Jesus, Word of God" and/or "The
Pope is Satan" to World Pastor Tony Alamo (a Registered Trade Mark) PO
Box 9078-3 Van Nuys CA 91409 12 pages, digest.
%Title: The Letter Exchange Number 28
%Descr: For and about people who like to write letters to each other.
Somewhat more than just a penpal exchange, as the publisher acts as a
maildrop for the subscribers. A very convinient service when one considers
the consequences of advertising a loaded opening like "Let's discuss rape."
Listings for people who want to write letters to fictional and/or dead
people, who wish to know the origin of souls or why you are a loner.
%Info: $9.00 each to The Letter Exchange PO Box 6218 Albany CA 94706
40 pages, digest.
%Title: Logo.Motive #1
%Descr: Hot&yummy stories for all persuasions indeed, from dreamtime
beastiality and magic/realistic casual encounters to Father fixations and
the depths of despair that comes with mutually impossible desires or the
loss of perfect lovers. Severe domination fantasies and arty photos. Plus
one of the more enthusiastic and unpretentious guides to publishing a zine
I've read. You cannot be disappointed with Logo.motive.
%Info: $6.00 each to More! Productions PO Box 3101 Berkeley, CA 94703
40 pages standard email more@lever.com
%Title: The Moocher's Periodical #3
%Descr: The middle of a rambling and often illegible interview with Jack
Stevenson and Jacques Boyreau. Mostly about porno movies, with almost all
of the words underlined for some reason. Reprints of posters for
Stevenson's showings of incredibly strange and little known films.
%Info: $0.25 each to The Moocher's Periodical PO Box 410086 SF CA
94141 4 pages, standard.
%Title: Mycena News Volume 42 Number 9
%Descr: News from the Mycological Society of San Francisco. The San
Francisco Fungus Faire. Collecting in the Sierra Foothills and at Salt
Point. A recipe for Chanterelle Sorbet, which Sebastien tried at the Faire
and pronounced it delicious. And, my favorite part, listings of all the
mushrooms found in and around San Francisco for the prior month. FWIW, I
pay hard currency for this zine.
%Info: $15.00 a year to, SASE for a sample to MSSF PO Box 882163 San
Francisco CA 94188-2163 8 pages, standard.
%Title: News From The White House Volume 3 Number 3
%Descr: What makes this pagan zine a wee bit different than most others is
that it is for white people only. Yup, pro-environment Odinist/Asatru
white supremecists. There's info about the acquisition of 31 acres of land
outside of Harrisburg to use for rites and survivalist training. A reprint
of an article from Power on how the Klan is a silly waste of time, easily
used by The Authorities and that better tactics and organization are
required. Plus networking information.
%Info: $5.00 a year to TWHN PO Box 6088 Harrisburg PA 17112-0088 6
pages, standard.
%Title: News of the Weird #18
%Descr: Clippings of weird events from mainstream sources. Overpriced
medical supplies, estates of hermit packrats, nude voodoo worship in
prison, US soldiers in diapers, Japanese cows with beepers, fast food for
dogs, learning to cuss in Australian and other delightful paragraphs that
give me hope.
%Info: $7.00 a year to Chuck Shepperd PO Box 8306 St. Petersburg FL
33738 4 pages, standard.
%Title: OnTour November 1992
%Descr: The newsletter for those who tour on bicycles. A great (and
accurate) story on biking from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to Big
Sur. Reviews of books and hardware. Water bottle and map tips. An epic
diary of an eight day ride from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border.
Yow! Remember, bikes are the way to go!
%Info: $1.00 each to OnTour Publications 2113 Arborview Ann Arbor MI
48103 8 pgaes, standard. email danr@ais.org
%Title: Ophelia's Web Numbers 7 & 8
%Descr: A fun little personal zine about fighting the good fights, other
zines and allied cultures. #7 includes info about the American Indian
College Fund and *lots* of detailed zine info. #8 has the Women Are Good
News project, boycotts, Suzanne Vega, How to Watch Monday Night Football
(I'm glad somebody explained to me why I was always able to get a dryer at
the Laundromat on Monday nights, all these idiots watching football),
rubber stamps and having the mind and attitude of Gibson character without
any of the toys. Hey, Tara, doing your zine on an ancient XT using a VCR
and a dumpster-retrieved TV is *way* more cyberpunk than most of the people
who contribute to alt.cyberpunk. And certainly more CP than the many semi-
slick so-called CyberZines don't have Net addresses!
%Info: $1.50 each to Tara Calishain 709-C Hawes Court Raleigh NC 27608
28 & 24 pages, digest. email tara@allen.com
%Title: Or Magazine Numbers 127 & 155
%Descr: 127 is all doodles from a pocket-sized notebook dealing with
cigarettes. 155 is stream of conciousness and word collages about art.
%Info: $30.00 for the whole shitload of them, single issues are probably
free from Don Miliken PO Box 868 Amherst MA 01004 12 pages, digest.
%Title: Out of Order Numbers 33-35
%Descr: Kerry Thornley, patron saint of Discordia, spenches more raw,
random data from the epicenter of the Great Conspiracies of the 60's. Out
of Order consists of reprints from The Decadent Worker dealing with
Thornley's relationships with Oswald, Shaw and Bannister; comentary of
many of the JFK assassination films and books; and great Discordian
bulldada.
%Info: $15.00 for 50 to Kerry Thornley PO Box 5498 Atlanta GA 30307
2 pages, standard.
%Title: Pagan Place #5
%Descr: The death & faxes issue. Surreal conversations and cartoons.
Disections of famous clerical slave faxes. Essays on friends who have
died. Trite political diatribes. Death according to Caspar the friendly
ghost(tm). I dunno, it just doesn't do much for me.
%Info: $1.00 each to Bob Martens PO Box #83 New York NY 10029 32
pages, standard.
%Title: The Printer's Devil Number 15
%Descr: All about printing small press zines on honest-to-God printers,
like a Multi 1250. What a lightbox is for and how to make one for under
$15.00. How to spot ink problems. Plus lots of news, letters and zine
reviews. Beautifully printed, of course, but I wonder about the glue-as-
binding method (my issue has already fallen apart) and the use of dot-
matrix printing.
%Info: $2.50 each to Mother of Ashes Press PO Box 66 Harrison ID 8388-
0066 24 pages, standard.
%Title: Radio Survey Collector Number 10
%Descr: Yeah, there are people out there who'll collect just about
anything. This group collects radio surveys. If you want to know what
were the top ten songs (in terms of airplay) for a bunch of AM stations in
Tacoma during the early sixties, this is the zine to get. I think I was
sent a photocopy of a real issue, as the pages are all over the place. Tim
Tam and the Turn Ons KOMA Dial 1520. What is this? Burroughs does
Decalomania?
%Info: SASE to Dennis Burns 10248 Lola Court Concord OH 44077 16
pages? digest?
%Title: Roller Sports Report Numbers 32 & 35
%Descr: I hate sports, but I can deal with roller derby since my father
used to be in the game. Lo and behold in #32 there's an article about Dad.
Too bad the bastard still breathes, although with greater and greater
difficulty (heh!). #32 is the August issue, and August being the
anniversary month of roller derby it's packed with nostalgia from the 30's
through the 60's. #35 has pix from a reunion of jammers, articles on
Roller Derby in Japan, and the doings of the current leagues.
%Info: $3.00 each to Fred Argoff 1204 Avenue U #1290 Brooklyn NY
11229-4107 20 pages, digest.
%Title: Roses June 18, 1992
%Descr: Twenty-two years ago Veronica Lueken had a vision of the Virgin
Mary while in a rose garden on Long Island. Ever since then, she's been in
direct, personal contact with Jesus, Mary, Joseph and a host of saints,
angels and cherubim. And what do they talk about? How AIDS is God's
punishment against homosexuals, how UFOs are Satan's minions in control of
the stratosphere, how beating children is the only way to ensure strict
family values and, the big story in this issue, "Communism death: a ruse.
Yeltsin, Gorbachev, agents of satan, executing master plan." Yep, just
like Elizabeth Clare Prophet said. This whole end of the cold war thing is
just a trick. We *must* keep building ICBMs or else Satan will take over
the world and all the rosaries in the universe aren't going to save you.
%Info: $1.00 and a scrawled note will get you on their mailing list for
life everlasting to Our Lady of the Roses PO Box 52 Bayside NY 11361 4
pages, standard.
%Title: Rough Draft Number 75
%Descr: Plans for upcomming events, and reports on the past doings of the
San Francisco Cacophony Society. Activities for December: A petition
drive in the heart of Frisco's Union Square shopping nexus (Macy's,
Needless Markup, Grumps, I. Magnin, etc.) to ban all Christmas muzak,
commercials and decorations before December 15; shooting photographs of
hated people at a gun club; Non Event (dress and act as usual, try to spot
other participants); a pilgimage to Seattle with Baby Jesus; White
Christmas, in which all food, clothing, decorations and music are white;
the building of an urban Christmas tree, in which found objects are
attached to lampposts and gifts of clothes and canned food are left for the
homeless; and the infamous shopping espionage event, in which participants
send in a photo of themselves, receive a photo of someone else, try to find
the person on the photo they get while avoiding being found. A report on a
previous event, the Atomic Cafe, is included.
%Info: $10.00 a year to Rough Draft PO Box 426392 San Francisco CA
94142-6392 4 pages, legal.
%Title: Schmaga Volume 3 Number 3
%Descr: A great zine with wonderful stories. How about a literary Teddy
Roosevelt and his poetic body guard Frank James foiling an assassination
attempt? A lovely slice of American mythos. Fastforward to the desperate
eroticisms of lowlife, car living alkies. Flying to Cleveland and Vermont
to taste-test the beers and assorted comestibles. Bad times in Barcelona
and with barber shop girls. Great art and reviews. Highly recommended!
%Info: $2.00 each to Jim Kern PO Box 8062 Vallejo CA 94590 48
pages, digest. email Prodigy GKSV57A
%Title: Schwa
%Descr: Whitney Striber alien rapture mindfuck conspiracy virus attack!
attack! attack! Sick stick figures from seventh dimension abduct office
drones for food, fun and fucking. Suicide=redemption=money. Stay awake!
Then there's the alien abduction survival card....
It's a mindblowing book of 35 potent black and white drawings on the above
themes. The survival card is the funniest part of the package, and is
available for $1.00.
%Info: $6.00 ($9.00 for book, greeting cards, mini calendar and hilarious
alien invasion survival card) each to Bill Barker PO Box 6064 Reno NV
89513-6064 38 pages, half-legal with gobs of self-promotion.
%Title: SF Libertarian Review October 1992
%Descr: About as local as you can get! What's going on with the
Party in San Francisco. All events, past and future.
%Info: SASE to The San Francisco Libertarian Party 1800 Market St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 1 page, standard
%Title: Smith's Report Number 12
%Descr: The Holocaust never happened, really. A report on a revisionist
who went to Germany and Poland disguised as a Jew. "He would wear his
yarmulka and chat up anyone who would tlak to him." 20 hours of video tape
will be edited down to unmask the "Polish Communist party in tandem with
the world-wide Holocaust Lobby."
%Info: Free "to those of you who help" from Bradley R. Smith PO Box 3267
Visalia CA 93278 8 pages, standard.
%Title: Steal The Fire
%Descr: Another issue of the Postal "Authorities" favorite zine (as it
always arrives openned and read). Anarchy as a family that members are
free to leave, plus the great oxymoron of anarchist organization.
"Spraypaint, rock, and magic markers are an anarchist best tools." All
typos theirs. In "The Brady Bunch Considers Going Feral" the unknown
author slags everyone not on the same anti-tech, hell anti-everything trip.
Two pages of mourning over Rosebud Denovo and three pages of ads for books
they sell. Plus incomprehensible photos of the Columbus Day protests.
%Info: Food stamps, beer or other articles to @.O.R. 537 Jones #1584
San Francisco CA 94102 18 pages, standard.
%Title: Subconscious Soup Volume 2 Numbers 2 & 3
%Descr: The cover art alone is worth the price. Suitable for framing!
Subconcious Soup is a great pro-hemp zine, although I question the bullshit
editorial in #3 on voting for Bill "Send the pot smokers to boot camp"
Clinton. #2 has very informative letters, the racist origins of the War on
Some Drugs going back to the early twentieth century, and tips on
organizing grass roots organizations for pennies a day. #3 has
reminicenses from the 60s, underground comix and abortion-rights articles.
Both are chock full lots of reviews, art, clippings and networking info.
Recommended.
%Info: $2.00 & 2 stamps to Scott Clark PO Box 421272 Kissimmee FL
34742-1272 40 pages digest & 28 pages standard.
%Title: Subterraneans Number 2
%Descr: I wonder why some people even bother? Illegible copy, black xerox
backgrounds that make it toxic to handle and reviews of fast food chains.
OK, maybe the Jad Fair interview and some of the reviews are mildly
entertaining.
%Info: $1.00 to Loy Fankbonner PO Box 602 Nogales AZ 85628 24 pages,
half-legal.
%Title: Talking Raven Volume II Number 2
%Descr: A devestating account of the death of publisher Antero Alli's 20
month old daughter Zoe. The theme of this issue is "The end of the world
as I want it." It never ends the way one wants it to, but that doesn't
stop the very impressive prose, poetry, artwork and photography that weave
the themes of death, destruction and surrealistic rebirth.
%Info: $2.00 (cash) to Talking Raven PO Box 45758 Seattle WA 98145 16
pages, tabloid.
%Title: The Tempatation of St. Anthony Numbers 30-52
%Descr: Every week you'll get a page, sometimes two, about a random
thought, phenomenon, dream or whatever. Think of this as in-the-mail I
Ching.
%Info: $0.50 a week to Mark-Jason Dominus POB 8166 Philadelphia PA
19101 1 or 2 pages, standard.
%Title: The And Number 7
%Descr: Wow. The holographic cover, trading card and toy glider are the
bonuses. This zine is the art and the stories. Stories about kids and
guns; stories with wacko B-movie SciFi and Twilight Zone style plots. All
peppered with wonderfully mind-bending collages and originals. Waaaay, way
cool zine!
%Info: $3.50 to Frank DiBari 612 N. Magnolia Drive Tallahassee FL
32308 40 heavy-duty multi-colored recycled pages, standard.
%Title: They Won't Stay Dead Number 21
%Descr: Great Weekly World News inspired take on the L.A. Riots: "With
subliminal radio transmission, [Dave] Mason is able to override the radio
waves produced by other FM and AM stations and interject his messages of
hate." I also liked the bars of Tijuana. Film and muzak reviews, mostly
of slasher and metal persuassion.
%Info: $1.00 to Brian Johnson 11 Warner Road Greenville PA 16125-9434
20 pages, digest.
%Title: Twilight of the Idols #6
%Descr: Twilight of the Idols is a DIY guide to personal nihilism. The
creators sincerely wish for the chaos of iminent social collapse.
"Miracle" makes "American Psycho" read like a third-grade primer.
Encounters at Frisco's most surreal bar, the Persian Zam Zam. Anti-sex
modifications. How to make an acetone peroxide explosive. Poe-styled
poetry of monkey-wrenching the unemployment 'system.' Cooking with antacid
tablets and toothpaste. Wacko xtian numerology. Depressing fiction. Bob
Black and Paul Weinman.
%Info: $2.00 to John A. Marmysz 3739 Balboa Street Suite #142 San
Francisco CA 94121 40 pages, standard
%Title: Unclassified Volume 4 #4
%Descr: Unclassified is a scary zine of cloak&dagger stuff one would think
exists only in the shadowy world of hard-core conspiracy theory buffs.
Wrongo. While the article on the confirmation hearings of head spook
Robert Gates contained little earthshattering information (except for
breaking the BNL scandal before the mainstream press), the article from a
disgruntled former employee of the State Department confirms what was
otherwise relagated to the fringes of reason: that many consulates and
embassies have more Agency employees than State department employees. More
bad news about INSLAW, coming from a Congressional report to be held until
after the election. How the CIA treats former assests: they all seem to
land in jail with all the paperwork missing. For the true paranoid
existance, one could subscribe to Unclassified and Full Disclosure and have
all your mail read.
%Info: $20.00 a year to Association of National Security Alumni 921
Pleasant Street Des Moines IA 50309 24 pages, standard.
%Title: Under Lansdowne Bridge. Issue 1 (1991) 2 (1992)
%Descr: Under Lansdowne Bridge is the publication of a group
of Cape Town based writers, who meet every last Friday of the
months. It caters for both established and aspirant poets.
While we usually print only work which has been extensively
workshopped and discussed in the group, and selected by the
group, we occasionally accept work by writers from elsewhere.
The main language used is English, with occasional contributions
in Afrikaans and Xhosa.
Under Lansdowne Bridge is generally considered in South Africa
to provide some of the most exciting reading - poetry and short
stories - this side of the Equator. [This review was submitted by the
publisher]
%Info: R6.60 + R2.00 packing and postage for readers outside
the Republic of South Africa.
Write to Peter Horn, 43 Trevor Road, Lansdowne 7764, Republic
of South Africa, or enquire by EMail "HORNPETE@UCTVAX.UCT.AC.ZA"
64 pages, A5
%Title: View from the Ledge #41
%Descr: A one page stream-of-weirdness from Chuck and company, more
condensed than News of the Weird. Then three pages of reprints from "real"
newspapers and magazines, like the ads for a video of topless girls
shooting machine guns and God's Fax Machine; the announcement of a wedding
that took place in a meat market; a clown funeral; surfers discuss life
after death. Get the picture? Good, now get the zine.
%Info: $7.00 a year to Chuck Shepperd PO Box 8306 St. Petersburg FL
33738 4 pages, standard.
%Title: VooDoo Fall 1992
%Descr: Humour from M.I.T. I guess I'd get it if I went to college. Some
of the dry wit is drole, some isn't. I like the pranks, but I just like
pranks. Lot's of comix. The epic tale of Gruenenbohr, in the 'naughty'
section, comes with artwork that belongs in a zine of its own.
%Info: $3.00 each to VooDoo Magazine MIT Room 50-309 77 Massachusetts
Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 56 pages, standard. email
voodoo@athena.mit.edu
%Title: Xuxem Volume 2
%Descr: It's big, it's weird, it's Polish. Need I say more? One
collection of fragments is in English, and is utterly pretensious. But the
layout is to die for, especially the piece on Georges Bataille.
%Info: $6.00 each to J. Alexander Sikora PO Box 1021 50-951 Wroclaw 3
Poland 36 pages, way oversized.
%Title: Zine Number 0
%Descr: Catchy title, huh? We were going to call the print version of F5
"Zines" if we had problems. Anyway, Nik is trying to start a Factsheet
Five for comix. Good luck! Nik *does* have the background, having
produced Amoeba Adventures and being an undergrad in Journalism. So send
your comix to him! Handy 1 to 5 splat rating system and detailed reviews.
He's not afraid to rave or condemn.
%Info: $1.00 each to Nik Digra PO Box 2230 University MS 38677-2230 8
pages (promises 20+ later), half-legal.